Clayburgh Quotes

#1. Jill Clayburgh's life so closely paralleled mine, I feel as though a part of me lived a little through her and died a little with her.

Gail Sheehy

#2. I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos.

Jill Clayburgh

#3. The government's drug laws were at best proven ineffectual every day and at worst were misguidedly focused on supply rather than demand, randomly conceived and unevenly and unfairly enforced based on race and class, and thus intellectually and morally bankrupt. And those things all were true.

Piper Kerman

#4. If she made a cake for him, she'd use salt in place of sugar-and lots of it.

Lorraine Heath

#5. There was just this amazing individuality. It's just a whole different world of optimism and fearlessness, women taking off their bras and dancing around naked, and a political hopefulness and involvement.

Jill Clayburgh

#6. At first, I spend about four hours a day writing. Toward the end of a book, I spend up to 16 hours a day on it, because all I want to do is make it good and get it done.

Tracy Kidder

#7. Knowing your purpose gives your life meaning, simplicity, focus and motivation. It also prepares you for eternity.

Rick Warren

#8. A woman came up to me after one of the screenings with tears pouring down her face and sobbed, You've defined my entire life for me on the screen.

Jill Clayburgh

#9. Music tells a lot about a person. I don't have to have a memory to know that. - Charlize "Charlie" Wynwood

Tarryn Fisher

#10. What bugs me is that movies don't reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don't treasure women as they get older.

Jill Clayburgh

#11. When the problem is worry, the prescription is prayer.

David Jeremiah

#12. I love to swim for miles; I could just go back and forth.

Jill Clayburgh

#13. I just read that Time magazine cover story with all this information about how you have to have your kids by the time you're 12 or it's all over. Please.

Jill Clayburgh

#14. I like to run, to go down the stairs, I'm one of those kind of people.

Jill Clayburgh

#15. I no longer say nice things about yoga. I was doing yoga so long before everybody else.

Jill Clayburgh

#16. There's something about soft, unstructured arms that's very beautiful.

Jill Clayburgh

#17. I don't theorize too much. I sort of let the experience sink in, and I have to discover what the character is by doing it, and having those thoughts that she's thinking.

Jill Clayburgh

#18. The world is terrible," said Mark tonelessly. "And some are drawn down into it and drown there, and some rise above and carry others with them.

Cassandra Clare

#19. People always seem to see echoes of their own lives in my films.

Jill Clayburgh

#20. I just didn't work that much while the kids were growing up.

Jill Clayburgh

#21. I notice now, whatever character in whatever movie you're watching, they have these toned arms and muscles.

Jill Clayburgh

#22. I don't like sitting around in my dressing room very much. It feels a lot like theater.

Jill Clayburgh

#23. If modernity has a motto, it is 'shit happens'. On

Yuval Noah Harari

#24. Well, this would be nice if it worked out, but I'm not selling the farm.

Jill Clayburgh

#25. Julius Peppers is probably 6'7 and 300 pounds. The great players spend all year round training for 16 games. It isn't fun being on the receiving end.

Matthew Stafford

#26. They were assured that they were going to be the only inhabitants of that milk and honey...

Maya Angelou

#27. There's no environment. Use your imagination. There's no fourth wall, whether it's the first time you've told this story about her life, or the sixth time.

Jill Clayburgh

#28. I want to be an actress, not a personality.

Jill Clayburgh

#29. I think it's no secret that I've tried to take chances in my career and also in my life, and I believe to not live in fear.

Nicolas Cage

#30. I came from dinner, went downtown with my friends, the elevator was down, I ran down the hall toward my room at 10 at night, having had two glasses of wine.

Jill Clayburgh

#31. Clothes are part of the character. They can't but help inform who you are.

Jill Clayburgh

#32. I love to do comedy, but music is really my heart.

Paul Shaffer